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<td class="v">15:1</td>
<td>Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,</td>
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<td class="v">15:2</td>
<td>Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.</td>
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<td class="v">15:3</td>
<td>But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?</td>
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<td class="v">15:4</td>
<td>For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.</td>
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<td class="v">15:5</td>
<td>But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;</td>
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<td class="v">15:6</td>
<td>And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.</td>
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<td class="v">15:7</td>
<td>Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,</td>
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<td class="v">15:8</td>
<td>This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.</td>
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<td class="v">15:9</td>
<td>But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.</td>
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<td class="v">15:10</td>
<td>And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:</td>
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<td class="v">15:11</td>
<td>Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.</td>
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<td class="v">15:12</td>
<td>Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?</td>
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<td class="v">15:13</td>
<td>But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.</td>
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<td class="v">15:14</td>
<td>Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.</td>
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<td class="v">15:15</td>
<td>Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.</td>
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<td class="v">15:16</td>
<td>And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?</td>
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<td class="v">15:17</td>
<td>Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?</td>
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<td class="v">15:18</td>
<td>But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.</td>
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<td class="v">15:19</td>
<td>For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:</td>
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<td class="v">15:20</td>
<td>These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.</td>
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<td class="v">15:21</td>
<td>Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.</td>
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<td class="v">15:22</td>
<td>And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.</td>
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<td class="v">15:23</td>
<td>But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.</td>
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<td class="v">15:24</td>
<td>But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.</td>
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<td class="v">15:25</td>
<td>Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.</td>
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<td class="v">15:26</td>
<td>But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.</td>
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<td class="v">15:27</td>
<td>And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.</td>
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<td class="v">15:28</td>
<td>Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.</td>
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<td class="v">15:29</td>
<td>And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.</td>
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<td class="v">15:30</td>
<td>And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:</td>
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<td class="v">15:31</td>
<td>Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.</td>
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<td class="v">15:32</td>
<td>Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.</td>
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<td class="v">15:33</td>
<td>And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?</td>
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<td class="v">15:34</td>
<td>And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.</td>
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<td class="v">15:35</td>
<td>And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.</td>
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<td class="v">15:36</td>
<td>And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.</td>
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<td class="v">15:37</td>
<td>And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.</td>
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<td class="v">15:38</td>
<td>And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.</td>
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<td class="v">15:39</td>
<td>And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.</td>
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